The government is responsible for organizing the daily material procurement of Chongming Island, and the naval army of Xue Yulai's department is responsible for sending ships and soldiers to assist in the procurement, and Songjiang Mansion on the south side of Chongming is the best place for material procurement. Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. ｂiquge。 infoSongjiang Prefecture is fertile and abundant, and the Huangpu River is wide and deep, allowing thousands of large ships to pass through. Just today, the clerk belonging to the Chongming County Ya returned to Chongming Island in a small boat in the torrential rain and reported to Shafu that the procurement ship had been looted by the Qing army.

Three sand boats loaded with stone and building materials took refuge on the bank of the Wusong River due to heavy rain, and were attacked by Qing soldiers taking advantage of the rain, and more than 100 boatmen and soldiers on board were captured. The clerk in charge of procurement jumped onto a small boat under the protection of several soldiers, crossed the Yangtze River in the rain and escaped.

Wusongkou was originally stationed there by Wu Zhikui, the chief soldier of Wusong, and there were also three or four thousand soldiers under him, but in late June, Li Chengdong, the chief soldier of the Green Battalion who surrendered to the Qing Dynasty, came to Wusong with more than 5,000 soldiers on the order of Duoduo. Although Wu Zhikui has a lot of subordinates, and there is Wusong Castle to rely on, but the quality of his soldiers and Li Chengdong's elite soldiers after the reduction is not comparable at all, but with Li Chengdong's striker, Wu Zhikui's men were killed and defeated, abandoned Wusong City overnight, and fled.

Wusong City, also known as Wusongjiang Thousand Households, was built in the Hongwu period, because Wusongkou is located at the junction of Wusongjiang River and Yangtze River, the location is extremely important, so the fortress is set up here. During the Jiajing period, the famous general Tang Kekuan once broke the Japanese invaders here, and since then he has established the post of Wusong General Army. Wusong City Fortress is located on the right bank of the Wusong River, is a small city one mile square, is also a military city, and there is a fort set up by the river outside the city, and there are more than ten artillery pieces of all kinds on the fort.

When Li Chengdong attacked Wu Zhikui, it was when Zhun Ta led his troops to attack Chongming, and Wu Zhikui fled quickly, so that Ren Siqi didn't have time to react, and Wu Songcheng was captured by Li Chengdong.

After Li Chengdong occupied Wusong, because there was no naval army, he was honest, and he did not try to attack Chongming, and the ships sent by Chongming to purchase were not restricted from entering and leaving Wusongkou freely, but he did not expect to suddenly attack today.

"Damn Li Chengdong, a traitor, dared to fight our idea, I led the fleet to destroy him!" Mao Eighteen was furious.

"Brother Eighteen, don't be impatient," Ren Siqi stopped Mao Eighteen, "There is a city in Wusongkou, although it is small, but it is very strong, the combat strength of Li Chengdong's soldiers is not weak, and there are forts, if we want to defeat Wusong, how many troops do we need to send?" How many casualties will there be? ”

Now Chongming has more than 40,000 soldiers, 20,000 infantry and more than 20,000 sailors. However, only 5,000 people in the infantry are veterans, and the rest are newly recruited soldiers who do not have much combat effectiveness, and after the battle of Yangzhou, the consumption of weapons is serious, take the musket as an example, because the quality of the steel is not up to par, the barrel is seriously damaged, and now there are only more than 1,300 muskets left in the army, and the musket of Daishan is produced in the Chongming workshop, because there is only an old machine tool to drill the barrel, resulting in limited production capacity, and one can not be replenished. There are quite a few spears and broadswords, but without the support of musketeers, a single class of pikemen alone cannot compete with the enemy. Although there was now a battalion of archers, the archers were severely untrained and their accuracy was far from perfect.

The training of recruits has only been less than a month, and even the array is not familiar with training, so how can such combat effectiveness fight the enemy? The current Daishan Army infantry may not even be able to defeat Li Chengdong's green battalion soldiers, except for the five thousand veterans. However, when the new army was organized, except for the two battalions that were retained, the rest of the 5,000 were mixed as officers and recruits, which means that only 2,000 people could be pulled out to fight now.

Moreover, siege operations have always been extremely costly, taking the Battle of Yangzhou as an example, in a month's battle, there were 40,000 or 50,000 Qing soldiers who died under the city of Yangzhou. And where can Chongming afford this kind of war of attrition now?

There are more than 10,000 veterans among the more than 20,000 sailors, but these sailors are the foundation for protecting Chongming Island and controlling the ocean.

So for the current Chongming, Li Chengdong's occupation of Wusongkou is like a thorn stuck in the throat, although it is painful, there is no way to take out this thorn for a while.

"The Governor is right, we can't afford this kind of siege now." Li Yanzhi sighed.

"Then you can't just forget it, I took the fleet to bomb the fuck, how can I get this bad breath!" Mao Eighteen said angrily.

Ren Siqi now has a premonition that something big is going to happen. After the Manchu Qing Dynasty captured Nanjing, the next thing should be issued is to issue a shaving order, and then there was an anti-Qing wave in various parts of the south of the Yangtze River, Jiading Three Massacres, Kunshan Massacre, Jiangyin Eighty-one Day, etc., but Ren Siqi who broke out on that day can't remember clearly. A heavy rain cut off the two sides of the Yangtze River, and perhaps after the rain stopped, news would be quickly passed back. You must know that as early as after the withdrawal to Chongming, the Enemy Intelligence Department sent a lot of detailed work to various places to inquire about the news.

Ren Siqi's hunch was right, the day after the rain stopped, a river boat sailed back from the upper reaches of the Yangtze River, bringing the news of Jiangyin's resistance to the Qing Dynasty.

Ren Siqi quickly convened the directors and generals of the Governor's Mansion to discuss the matter.

"Ladies and gentlemen, the Qing court ordered to shave your hair, and everyone knows the news of Jiangyin's army. Next, Suzhou, Changzhou, and Jiading, I am afraid that there will be more and more troops against the Qing Dynasty. What should we do in Chongming? Ren Siqi introduced the situation and asked everyone.

"What else is there to think about, immediately send troops to attack Wu Song, kill Li Chengdong and then attack Songjiang Mansion." Mao 18 said first.

"Commander Mao is right, since troops have risen up everywhere against the Qing Dynasty, we Chongming can't let go of such an opportunity, we should capture the Songjiang Mansion closest to us and respond to the rebels everywhere." Liu Zhaoji nodded and agreed with Mao Shiba's suggestion.

"I also agree to send troops, but we don't need to fight Wusong, we can take a boat around Jinshanwei, I heard that Jinshanwei's Ming army has not yet surrendered, we can join them and attack Songjiang from there. Li Chengdong will definitely not let us take Songjiang Mansion, we can take advantage of his army to destroy him in a field battle with him, so there is no need to attack the city. Song Liben, director of the Department of Pacification, put forward his own suggestions.

"That's good, Old Song, this method is good, it's better than attacking Wu Song hard." Mao Shibai smiled and slapped Song Liben's shoulder.

"Hey, I said Commander Mao, do you want to shoot me to death?" Song Liben grinned in pain.

The generals were in full swing, and they all agreed to send troops, and the direction of the troops was naturally the Chongming Mansion closest to Chongming.

However, Ren Siqi observed that Li Yanzhi, director of the General Staff Department, and Yan Ermei, director of the United Front Work Department, have not spoken.

"What, what does Mr. Yan think?" Ren Siqi asked Yan Ermei with a smile.

"The generals have a point. The subordinate is just a literati, so it's okay for me to dance and write, and the staff officer is not good at the subordinates. Yan Ermei said humbly, "But now that there are many people everywhere, it is the time for heroes to use force, and I Chongming is naturally not willing to be lonely." ”

Ren Siqi smiled and nodded, and then looked at Li Yanzhi, who had never spoken.

"My subordinates have a different opinion." Li Yan's straightforward words made the others frown. (To be continued.) )